"You're doin an awful lot of drinkin..."

Shanotheslayer · 30-01-2012 03:09AM

Sindri wrote: »

Whatever unresolved issues you may have with your mother and alcohol please be so kind as to not subject me to them.

I have no issues with my mother and alcohol I was simple stating that your comment was harsh as you clearly don't know the effect of alcoholism if it makes you call them a knob, that is all.

Sindri · 30-01-2012 03:15AM

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

I have no issues with my mother and alcohol I was simple stating that your comment was harsh as you clearly don't know the effect of alcoholism if it makes you call them a knob, that is all.

I am very familiar with the effects of alcohol, thank you for pointing out though that I am not. I would not have known otherwise. That is all.

:rolleyes:

MyKeyG · 30-01-2012 03:36AM

Sindri wrote: »

I am very familiar with the effects of alcohol, thank you for pointing out though that I am not. I would not have known otherwise. That is all.

:rolleyes:

You can't call someone a knob for having a problem with alcohol and expect people to accept you have a balanced empathetic view no matter how much eye rolling you do!!!

cruiser178 · 30-01-2012 03:54AM

TheZohan wrote: »

Honest answer; you can't. He'll have to learn for himself. If you tell him you guys will just fall out.

If your mate has his wits "still about him" then maybe the Zohan's way is the way to go, but if your mate is a genuine alcholic in the making, then as a friend, personially, I think you should grab the bull by the horns and tell him what an ass hole he is been when drunk.

Take this from experience, you dont want to try give your mate your own toupence worth, when rehab is'nt working any more (not saying your friend is that far gone) try reach him before he hits that very short slippery road. Been there, seen it, done it, glad i had good friends around me when i went through rehab 5 years ago.

Sindri · 30-01-2012 04:18AM

MyKeyG wrote: »

You can't call someone a knob for having a problem with alcohol and expect people to accept you have a balanced empathetic view no matter how much eye rolling you do!!!

Didn't call him a knob for his alcohol problem but for the reasons why the OP gave for why he suffers from an alcohol problem, namely trying to be an 'ard man.

policarp · 30-01-2012 04:19AM

Sindri wrote: »

I am very familiar with the effects of alcohol,

:rolleyes:

MyKeyG · 30-01-2012 04:48AM

Sindri wrote: »

Didn't call him a knob for his alcohol problem but for the reasons why the OP gave for why he suffers from an alcohol problem, namely trying to be an 'ard man.

Says him! That could just be a cover for depression or any one of a number of other reasons that cause people to drink to excess.

Sindri · 30-01-2012 05:07AM

MyKeyG wrote: »

Says him! That could just be a cover for depression or any one of a number of other reasons that cause people to drink to excess.

I am well aware of the reasons for consuming alcohol due to depression thank you very much and all the other reasons. That is all.

:rolleyes:

MyKeyG · 30-01-2012 05:14AM

Sindri wrote: »

I am well aware of the reasons for consuming alcohol due to depression thank you very much and all the other reasons. That is all.

:rolleyes:

Seriously the trolls are out in force on this thread:rolleyes:

Sindri · 30-01-2012 05:31AM

MyKeyG wrote: »

Seriously the trolls are out in force on this thread:rolleyes:

I resent that accusation and will report it. That is all.

:rolleyes:

flanum · 30-01-2012 07:01AM

my god op, get your own life.. im 42 and ive exhaled in one breath those shenanigans you speak of, i fully intend to carry on enjoying my jars and having a great auld life to a very ripe age, btw its 5:52am now and im skulling a can, but im not at work till 2pm cos im on the late shift... ffs... life is for living, not regretting that ye didnt party harder... as long as ye dont hurt anybody else thats the main thing!

MyKeyG · 30-01-2012 07:39AM

flanum wrote: »

my god op, get your own life.. im 42 and ive exhaled in one breath those shenanigans you speak of, i fully intend to carry on enjoying my jars and having a great auld life to a very ripe age, btw its 5:52am now and im skulling a can, but im not at work till 2pm cos im on the late shift... ffs... life is for living, not regretting that ye didnt party harder... as long as ye dont hurt anybody else thats the main thing!

Glad you're living your life at 42. Enjoy sh1tting in a bag at 50!

The Snipe · 30-01-2012 09:24AM

RichieC wrote: »

Somehow I doubt a 17 yo drank 20 pints.

I did it when I was 17

gcgirl · 30-01-2012 09:55AM

It's clear he has self esteem issues, he must hate himself so much internally to be self harming like he does, the doctor would be first call and then John of gods for drying out

30-01-2012 10:11AM

danbreslin wrote: »

****ing let him die.If he can drink twenty pints and not die,im sure he'd be able to take a drunken bullet to the head.

Aaah good morning AH.

Anyway, with personal experience with friends who are alcoholics, the only thing you can do is point out the problem and say you are worried about it.

Find out where the closest AA group is and call to a meeting and ask for advice on how you would approach the issue.

Then the rest is up to him.

Ellis Dee · 30-01-2012 10:31AM

It sounds to me like he's on his way to a Darwin Award, just that he's taking a somewhat slower route than most.;) There's no point talking to someone like him. The only hope, and it is a slim one, is that he will have a severe medical crisis or be in a terrible accident, and yet survive and then cop himself on.:rolleyes:

Otherwise, he will just go on his merry way for a few years and, knocking back 20 pints in a session, there won't be a lot going on in the boner department, so his genes won't be added to the human pool.:)

sbsquarepants · 30-01-2012 11:31AM

Sindri wrote: »

You should tell him heavy drinking usually results in a decrease of how long you can expect to live. It's not drinking that's bad, it can be good, it's heavy drinking that is extremely unhealthy and kills.

If for instance you rarely drank but went out on a Friday and drank heavily, even once, it can do damage to your liver that is still perceptible months afterwards.

It is almost unbelievable the amount of damage heavy drinking does to you. You don't even have to be an alcoholic i.e. have a dependency on alcohol, all you have to do is drink heavily and it cuts your life down to death occuring in the near future depending on how often you consume alcohol and the quantities of alcohol you consume.

He's is probably killing himself.:(

Come off it would you!
We all know it's bad for you, but this kind of histerical nonsense doesn't help. Yes drinking heavily is not good for you in any way, but "death in the near future" is hardly a foregone conclusion!!

Pissmire · 30-01-2012 11:32AM

Most of you probably have similar experience. Quite a few lads in my town, six or seven that I can think of, died from cirrhosis. Their skin turned yellow, their eyes turned yellow, they swelled up. Some tried to stop, the improvement was noticeable. But then they went back to drinking again and it killed them. All died around their early forties.

Does your friend work? If he does, how does he manage to hold down a job? If he doesn't, how can he afford to drink so much?

Doesn't sound like he has much of a future.

Father Damo · 30-01-2012 11:48AM

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

Is there any way to tell a friend he's drinking to excess in a sensitive manner? Friend of mine has been overdoing the sauce for a good few years now. The night he finished the leaving cert he downed 20 pints. He has a talent for finding sh*thole pubs that serve cheap drink. One of the pubs he found even had an 80 year old man barred, it was that bad. Another night he got in a row with a taxi-driver because he couldn't find anywhere open that would serve drink, and still demanded payment for the trip.

He has this idea that heavy-drinking is synonymous with being a big tough guy and legitimises him as a man. How to broach the issue before his liver packs up and moves for less booze-soaked shores?

As long as he isnt doing this well into his 30s or causing trouble regularly I dont see a problem as long as it isnt every night. 20 pints on his LC night, so fookin what! Here in Oz we have all night bars and clubs, we often start Saturday afternoon and finish up Sunday night without a wink of sleep. Living while we are still young. The thought of having to go home at 2:30am like back home is pretty alien by now.

Defiler Of The Coffin · 02-02-2012 09:36PM

flanum wrote: »

my god op, get your own life.. im 42 and ive exhaled in one breath those shenanigans you speak of, i fully intend to carry on enjoying my jars and having a great auld life to a very ripe age, btw its 5:52am now and im skulling a can, but im not at work till 2pm cos im on the late shift... ffs... life is for living, not regretting that ye didnt party harder... as long as ye dont hurt anybody else thats the main thing!

You sound like a relation of mine that carried on the same... "We're here for a good time not a long time" was his mantra. We buried him last year, age 52.

PhlegmyMoses · 02-02-2012 09:39PM

Play him this song.

"You're doin an awful lot of drinkin..."

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